garbage-collector.rpm ? (Was: Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03)

[Rex Dieter]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
>> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:32 +0100
>>> bugs.michael at gmx.net (Michael Schwendt) wrote:
>>>> The missing obsoletes is a fundamental problem, not specific to
>>>> Extras. There is no automatic garbage collection during upgrades.
>> Do we know of any distribution that handles it better?
> 
> No idea, but maybe we could ship a "garbage-collector.7-1.fc7.rpm" in
> the repo that simply obsoletes all packages that aren't shipped anymore
> and don't get obsoleted by other packages.

+1, imo, KISS and all that jazz.

-- Rex